PLEASE NOTE: Celebration is back in the sanctuary! Masks are optional, but encouraged. You also may watch the service on a live stream at home. Please use this option if you aren’t feeling well. To learn more about these choices, please visit mpcfamily.org/celebrate. In order to keep everyone healthy & safe, we will:
- encourage masking when indoors
- run the furnace filtration system for ventilation, doors and windows open only when necessary
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In celebration this week:
- Scott Thompson, on cello, and Kim Rankin, on piano, will play the prelude, “Sonata for viola da gamba in G major” BWV 1027:Andante; by J. S. Bach
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Jerry White will lead us in a Call to Celebration (Everet Tilson and Phyllis Cole)
- the opening hymn will be “Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies”
- next Jerry will lead us in a Prayer of Confession and Reconciliation (using an adapted Ojibwe prayer)
- Debbie Fallehy will lead a celebration of April birthdays
- then it’s Time with Children
- Invitations are next
- Special music is “Spiegel im Spiegel” (Mirror within Mirror) by Arvo Pärt
- Jerry will read from the scriptures, John 12:1-8
- Rev. Ben Daniel will offer a sermon, “On Not Judging Other People’s Extravagance”
- the Hymn of Response will be “A Prophet -Woman Broke a Jar”
- Next, is a God’s Work in the World from Pat Schwinn on One Great Hour of Sharing
- the offering plates will be passed
- we will celebrate communion
- the closing hymn will be “Sharing Paschal Bread and Wine”
- we will recite the Charge
- there will be a benediction
- followed by a postlude, “When Jesus Wept” by William Billings (1746-1800)
The Charge (say together) Go out into the world in peace. Have courage; hold on to what is good. Return no one evil for evil. Strengthen the faint-hearted, support the weak, and help the suffering. Honor all people. Care for Creation. Love and serve God, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Celebration live stream recordings
Every week, we post a live stream recording to YouTube. You can view information about those live stream recordings and access a link to the playlist on our Celebration Recordings page.